Toshiba KIRAbook

silvagti · 11 May 2013 at 16:53

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/05/toshiba-kirabook-review/

Finally a decent looking touchscreen laptop to rival the MacBook Pro! I'd have been tempted were it not for the imminent release of Haswell as selling last generation tech for top dollar money is never gonna fly.

Ksanti · 11 May 2013 at 18:05

Doesn't look enough like a cheap macbook knockoff to me...

Nymins · 11 May 2013 at 20:28

Ksanti said:
Doesn't look enough like a cheap macbook knockoff to me...

Doesn't really though does it?

Seems every time a manufacturer releases a laptop thats silver, it gets branded a Macbook clone.

asim18 · 11 May 2013 at 21:41

Nymins said:
Seems every time a manufacturer releases a laptop thats silver, it gets branded a Macbook clone.

One word explanation: Brainwashing. Apple are known to brainwash the the masses and Apple fanatics are brainwashed to think like Apple itself. It's a well known fact, and I wouldn't worry about it.

Wouldn't be surprised if Apple sued Toshiba for having black keyboard on a silver laptop.

Ryan-3 · 14 May 2013 at 21:05

I'd probably go for the 'Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13' over this, or a rMBP

But it is nice to see more laptops being released with very high resolution screens.

Ksanti · 14 May 2013 at 21:19

Black bezel, glossy flat screen
Silver aluminium body
Black chiclet keyboard
No separated touchpad buttons

I'm sorry but there's very little they could have done to make it look like more of a macbook ripoff.

UnworthyBean · 14 May 2013 at 21:35

The Lenovo U310 is another example of a Macbook ripoff, Albeit less equipped.

Nymins · 14 May 2013 at 22:07

Ksanti said:
Black bezel, glossy flat screen
Silver aluminium body
Black chiclet keyboard
No separated touchpad buttons

I'm sorry but there's very little they could have done to make it look like more of a macbook ripoff.

Pretty much every keyboard is black and chiclet, touch pads are now becoming click pads and the other two are just design choices.

djxput · 15 May 2013 at 11:50

read the review - quite interesting ...
I bought a dell xps 13 recently - wasn't looking for a MacBook just a small laptop that I can take to work ...

still feel there isn't much better out there for the $ ... although it does have a few querks ...
dells screen is also top notch

Liamb2005 · 16 May 2013 at 20:15

arrr hate it when people say apple rip off, apple are the rip off masters !!!